While still in open Beta, its flagship NBA Top Shot grew by 30x in 2021, with more than US$780M in collectibles bought and sold, more than 1.1M registered accounts of which over 48% own at least one moment, and over 13 million transactions. This latest round follows a year of exponential growth for Dapper Labs. We are excited to be a part of this journey – and its next iterations – with Roham and team." "With NBA Top Shot and a compelling pipeline of products to come, Dapper Labs is leading the way with the innovative Flow platform. "Blockchain and crypto are foundational underpinnings for the next wave of technology evolution," said Mary Meeker, General Partner of BOND. We continue to be impressed by Roham's strong leadership and vision and we could not be more proud to partner with him and the entire team at Dapper." "We think Dapper Labs is a leader in the space at the infrastructure level with Flow blockchain and in the application layer with NBA TopShot. "Coatue has been investing in technology trends for over 20 years and web 3.0 is one of the most exciting trends we've seen," said Dan Rose, Chairman, Coatue Ventures. Both Dapper Labs and Sorare indicated they hope to take advantage of sports stars' huge social media followings to get the word out about their platforms.Dapper Labs announces $250M in funding from COATUE, A16Z, GV, BOND, GIC and more (CNW Group/Dapper Labs, Inc.) Sorare also plans to launch a mobile app and have all of the top 20 soccer leagues signed up by the end of 2022. Sorare has been approached by a number of U.S. Sorare is also upping its rivalry with Dapper Labs, planning to expand into the U.S. It comes a week after LaLiga announced a separate partnership with Sorare to add digital player cards from the league. "Part of this funding will go toward expanding functionality on NBA Top shot, developing a mobile product, and connecting the digital collecting experience with the experience of a fan showing up to a live game, or even supporting their team on social media," Roham Gharegozlou, Dapper Labs' CEO, told CNBC. Dapper Labs says it plans to invest part of the fresh cash into new experiences, like paid trips to big games. In addition to announcing its latest funding Wednesday, Dapper Labs unveiled a partnership with LaLiga, Spain's top soccer league, to introduce a similar experience to NBA Top Shot for soccer fans. The huge sums of money flowing into firms like Dapper Labs and Sorare highlights how investors are chasing the next big thing in crypto.Ĭrypto and blockchain start-ups have received about $19 billion in venture funding so far this year, almost triple the $6.4 billion raised by the sector in 2020, according to figures shared with CNBC by data firm Pitchbook. High-profile transactions include a record $69 million artwork sold by digital artist Beeple at a Christie's auction and the $2.9 million sale of the first-ever tweet by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Prices of NFTs spiked earlier this year, with sales reaching a record $2.5 billion in the first half of 2021.
But you also have provable scarcity, which is very appealing to collectors." "When you translate it to NFTs in the digital world, there's many more things which you can do, like using them in a game for instance. "You put them in an album and that's nice but it's kind of limiting." "When we think about the collectibles in the physical world, most of them have no utility value," Nicolas Julia, CEO and cop-founder of Sorare, explained. Each NFT is unique and acts as a collector's item that can't be duplicated - however, the underlying media can still be viewed by someone else on the internet. This means they cannot be exchanged with one another like dollars or gold. Unlike bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, NFTs aren't fungible.
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